"Web as Platform" - Google-style
| The 'My Podcasts' link to the right of my blog will let you listen to a podcast I published just yesterday - "Scottish Education and the Web". In it I speak of what I see as the two key aspects of Web 2.0: one is the notion of the "Web as the Platform", an idea that is behind the basic design of Glow; the other is, of course, the whole social software/social networking nexus, involving blogging, wikis, podcasting, etc. I went into the notion of the "Web as the Platform" in my post of just a couple of days ago - "Harnessing Collective Intelligence", and used the text of that post for part of my podcast. Today, the BBC website carries this article - Google to target software market. With Writely and the Google Spreadsheets already in its stable, Google is taking its first determined steps, it would seem, towards the future, a future in which the Web will simply be the platform for everything we do in ICT. Where Google leads, others will surely follow. Technorati Tags: web as platform, google, harnessing collective intelligence, idf |
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Comments on ""Web as Platform" - Google-style"
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John J said ... (August 29, 2006 8:46 PM) :
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David Gilmour said ... (September 01, 2006 9:08 AM) :
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John Connell said ... (September 01, 2006 4:48 PM) :
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David Gilmour said ... (September 01, 2006 11:16 PM) :
post a commentHi John,
I enjoyed the podcast, I probably need to listen again before I comment more, but lots of interesting stuff. The hardest part of commenting on podcasts is remembering exactly what was said.
I agree that the networked world is the place to be, but I am not sure if the browser is going to dominate in the long term.
One of the most interesting experiences I had recently was a communal piece of documentation, we used SubEthaEdit to edit a file on one person's server. You could see the changes happening in other bits of the document as other folk typed. This compared favorably with the experience of losing an edit on a wiki because someone else was editing at the same time. Some interesting ideas about this: Beyond the Browser.
I am currently playing with some crude experiments posting to blogs from outside the browser. It is simpler to follow a large number of rss feeds from a dedicated rss reader(pace bloglines) thant to open them in a browser although I usually visit the ones that look most interesting to me.
Anyway, enjoyed the podcast, and I will be listening to it again, nice to hear from the bridge.
Hi John,
Thanks for the podcast, it helped me put a lot more pieces into the jigsaw, and I can see the picture now. That kind of "big picture" is surprisingly hard to find. I've left some thoughts here.
Don't see a way to leave a Trackback..
Thanks for the comments, here and on your own blog, David - much appreciated! I had problems with trackback on my humble blogger-based blog and turned it off. I've tried to sort the problem a couple of times but my I'm not quite up to the task as yet. Thinking of moving the whole thing over onto Wordpress anyway, self-hosted - any thoughts? Blogger is just way too inconsistent for me.
We're introducing WordPress Multi-User to host edu blogs for East Lothian education (including class and student ones). It seems a state-of-the-art product. WPMU is complex, and you don't need it, but WordPress would be a good choice for your purpose. Happy to help if you want!